Product success depends on close collaboration between design and development teams. The journey from idea to working prototype to awesome product is paved with clear communication between the two. We can look back at most product hiccups and diagnose the problem as a miscommunication.

Now that the hype has died and players have been able to log some serious hours into the first entry of Bungie&rsquo;s next generation title Destiny, it&rsquo;s not hard to find some critical articles about how the game hacks human behaviour to create habit inducing feedback loops. Recently I was reminded of the Destiny beta when I was putting together a landing page for a new product that included some email capture and a call to action to submit contact info to get access to the app. Something that stood out to me was how Destiny productized their beta and leveraged excitement in order to gain massive support for their alpha and beta testing.